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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue XIV, 2 April 1879, Page 4

"Silverpen," the San Francisco correspondent ef the New Zealand Herald, writes: — Dress ia the great object of a San Francisco woman's life. Dress and appearances. The blonde type of female is the one most sought after ; But then it is very expensive to become a blonde, especially for one whose hair is coalblack. To change the color of your head-gear you must be dyed. No, I don,t mean that — your head must be dyed. That's it. This costs 100 dollars, and to keep up the color it takes two bottles of dye a week, at a coat of 16 dollars. The color varies from pale to deep gold, but you can always tell the dyed blonde, lovely as the hair is ; and with dark eyes it is quite effective, though uncommonly fast-looking. Really, it is impossible in the Btreet to discriminate between the bleached lady blonde and the bleached member of the demi-monde. Mauy women with bad complexions eat arsenic, which,by-and-by, gives to the shin the opaque, deadly white of a denizen of the Morgue" This is delicately tinted with pink, and the golden head-gear above looks exquisite by candlelight, causing, however it thrill of pity for the^oor victim, who

dartes neve, forgfet her daily poison potion, as being once inflated with arsenic, the skin relapses into a wowe condition than before, and the plump cheeks, bust, and form become shrunken aod old ere age has laid its hand upon its victim. Ob, woman ! where will you stop ? It's hard to tell.